I pretty much delete all posts from St. Laurent, as most of them are a waste of
time to read (not to mention almost impossible to comprehend) and irrelevant to
the topic at hand. (Does he even have a Dakota?)
Alex
97 CC Sport V8 5spd
>
> One more time: JUST DELETE THE POST AND MOVE ON!!!
>
> --------------------------------------
> Steven St.Laurent
> C4I System Engineer
> Engineering Branch, PSD, MCTSSA
> MARCORSYSCOM, U.S. Marine Corps
> Office (760) 725-2506 (DSN Prefix: 365)
> "Information learn is power for the intellectual mind...".
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Patrick and Kelly Engram [mailto:patrickandkelly@erols.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 8:30 PM
> To: DML
> Subject: DML: huge replies wasting bandwidth
>
>
> >
> >
> >Um - I'm not one to harp on the particulars of BBS posting. But I don't
> >quite know how this happens.
> >
> >A member just posted (not faulting or blaming or scolding amyone at all)
> >a message that came through on my Mozilla BBS reader - as nothing but a
> >line of "re"s. I had no idea what the post was about....
> >
> >here's what I saw...
> >
>
> Shucks, I've just about given up on subject lines even though that's
> what I scan when I read my digest.
> I've just come to accept the fact if someone doesnt properly edit the
> subject line, then I may not read
> their post because the original subject may not be something I may be
> interested at that time.
> My biggest complaint recently is the huge amount of excess material
> included in replies to other posts,
> which can be including as much as 3-5 recent posts that just keep going
> on. You can reply to a post
> without resending that last 10 copies of it.
> Yeah, I can understand the occasional error when someone replies to a
> line in a digest and accidentally
> includes the whole digest...
> Here's an example, not to pick on anyone, but this was 25% of one
> digest...
>
>
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